50 points. Due December 18. NO late submission.
Type your answers to the questions below in a Word document named Final. Format the document neatly and number your responses so I can tell which question you are answering. The answers should be in complete sentences. Use the Spelling and Grammar tools to correct your document. Submit to Etudes Tasks, Tests and Surveys.
1. Click the link to open a 2 page PDF file "Let them Eat Dog." Read it carefully and answer the following questions.
a. What is the issue? The issue is a question that the conclusion answers.
b. What is the author's conclusion?
c. (5 points) What are the reasons? Make sure the reasons you give support the conclusion.d. (6 points) Locate three pieces of evidence in the article. For each, give the text from the article and identify it as intuition, personal experience, testimonial, appeal to authority, research study, case example or analogy.
e. (6 points) What are the author's values? Describe three. Give the values and the text from the article that shows the author holds that value. Select from the lists of values at:
Society Values at http://www.gurusoftware.com/GuruNet/Social/Topics/Values.htm
Personal Values at http://www.gurusoftware.com/GuruNet/Personal/Topics/Values.htm#personal_values
2. Click the link to open a PDF file "Fido, a.k.a. the climate criminal." Read it carefully and answer the following questions.
a. What is the author's conclusion?
b. (5 points) What are the reasons? Make sure the reasons you give support the conclusion.c. (5 points) Locate a descriptive assumption made by the author. Identify the text it appears in and describe why you think it is an assumption about how the world is.
d. (4 points) Locate 2 fallacies in the article. For each, give the text from the article and the name of the fallacy ( http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/index.html#index )
e. (3 points) Identify an ambiguity in this article. Give the ambiguous text and a short description of why you think it is ambiguous.
3. (8 points) Rival Causes
a. Search the Internet to find an article that describes causes of global warming (besides our animals). What is the title and URL of the page?
b. What are the causes it describes?
c. Create an MLA reference that would go on a Works Cited page for the article. The reference should be formatted with hanging indent and include the proper information in the right order.
4. (5 points) Write your own argument about the effect our pets have on the environment. Have a clear conclusion. Support your argument using evidence from the articles from #1 and 2 and other information you find by searching the web. Your editorial should be at least a couple of paragraphs.